
When you're taking a look ahead to where popular music might be going it sometimes helps to understand where it's come from. This way you can begin to recognise patterns and influences as they appear. The difficult trick for any modern magpies is to successfully blend the old ideas with some new ones. The future of music isn't decided by those that attack the past, pillaging it of it's best bits, re-packaging it and then re-selling it to innocent punters. Regurgitating a Michelin starred meal will not a chef make you. There's plenty of admirable examples of this [...]